Nothing cleared up by health care story

Regarding the article, “Poll: Americans still confused by health care law,” based on an Associated Press poll, which appeared in the Sept. 22 Times:

So, you gave us the information that people are confused by the new federal health care law.

The article stated that in the poll, concerning provisions of the new law, “right or wrong, people were unsure of their answers.”

Please, next time, include the poll itself. Tell us what the questions were and give us the correct answers.

What a great opportunity this would have been inform us of what is included in — and excluded from — the law. Surely this information was available through the Associated Press.

The public needs and wants to know!

Is there a better way to be informed than by our local news teams?

Marilyn HornerWoolwich Township

Editor’s note: Unfortunately, this particular Associated Press story did not come with Web site links to the complete poll data. However, a longer version of the story included just one example:“People were asked whether the Congressional Budget Office had ruled that the legislation would probably increase the government’s debt, or whether the nonpartisan budget analysts found that the health law would reduce red ink. (Correct answer: CBO found it would reduce the federal deficit over time.)“But 81 percent in the survey got the wrong answer, including majorities of both supporters and opponents ... .”